About

Teaching the digital painting class at SynStudio:I’ve been teaching this class for 5 semesters.The focus is on the fundamentals of painting (values, composition, color, etc.) to incorporate into digital art.My purpose as a teacher is to “demystify” techniques and inspire intelligent practices to improve artistic skills over the duration of the course.Mentoring with the Jeunes Volontaires program:I act as a mentor to an aspiring writer/artist who wants to create a graphic novel about his perspective and experience with the student protests of 2012. My goal is to teach him how to draw within a year so as to complete his novel.I meet with him weekly after my class my SynStudio and we go over homework/exercices, etc.Private teaching (volunteer):I also teach another student (a tattoo artist that wants to improve his skills) at the same time.I meet with him weekly as well (at the same time as the other student) to go over homework/exercises, etc.Having both students who have different goals but starting with the same fundamentals creates an interesting dynamic where they both feed off each other.I’m doing this because I had somebody mentor and help me out tremendously when I was just starting off my career and he always encouraged me to pay it forward.